HOLIDAY PAY
WATERFRONT ANOMALY The decision of the Government to regard Anniversary Day as an ordinary working day did not affect the overtime rates set out for such holidays for waterside workers, and those employed that day received double time, or 6s an hour, says the "N.Z. Herald." Overtime rates were also paid on the day of the waterside workers’ picnic to those workers who were required. One anomaly which arose from regarding Anniversary Day as an ordinary working day was that one shipping company had to employ 30 men for eight hours at double time on a ship for which there was no immediate hurry. Had Anniversary Day been regarded as a holiday the company would have been able to dismiss the men on Thursday night and engage them again on Saturday morning. As it was a working day the men could not be dismissed ai:d had to be employed fbr eight hours at 6s an hour, or not employed and paid for six hours. The cargo was not perishable and there was no immediate hurry to despatch the ship.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 78, 9 February 1943, Page 4
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181HOLIDAY PAY Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 78, 9 February 1943, Page 4
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